Braddock's Guide to Horse Race Selection and Betting
by Peter Braddock
Bet with the Best
by Andrew Beyer, Steve Davidowitz, James Quinn, and Tom Brohamer
"Days Like These" is a personal, autobiographical account of one man's passionate love affair with horse racing and betting. It chronicles the origins and consequences of his obsession with the sport and his addiction to gambling on it, through good times and bad. By interweaving dramatic racing moments with key episodes from his own experiences, Reid shows how a love of "the turf" can transform and intensify everyday life. The book celebrates some of the great racing personalities of the last 4...
Unlike form study, race profiling does not attempt to quantify the ability of a horse. Instead it extracts the key characteristics of each race and uses these features to generate a profile of the most likely race winner. These profiles can have few or many attributes depending on the significance of the features and the depth of data supporting each one, and whilst some races do not lend themselves to profiling, many races have very exact profiles and are won on a regular basis by horses that e...
"Class Figures" is a brand new way of looking at horseracing, and perhaps the most important aspect of picking a winner: the class horse in the field. This method will do for measuring class what Andrew Beyer did for measuring speed over two decades ago. This new book gets to the heart of a horse race and allows you to isolate the live contenders quickly and accurately. In the future, "Class Figures" will have the same impact that "Speed Figures" have had within both the racing media and in the...
An A-Z Guide to 1,000 horses whose prospects for the 2004-2005 National Hunt racing season are particularly recommended to punters by the form experts at the Racing Post. It also contains a series of articles by the Racing Post's experts on different aspects of the new racing season, e.g: Postmark/Topspeed tips; Last year's stars; Ten to follow; Novices to note; Dark horses; Leading Lambourn hopes; The Northern challenge; Irish favourites; Top trainers mark your card; View from the saddle; Leadi...
A revolutionary look at the theory behind speed handicapping.
Since the inclusion of Beyer Speed Figures into the Daily Racing Form in 1992, horseplayers have had a new tool to use in their day-to-day handicapping. Learn what Beyer Speed Figures are, how they consistently point to the fastest horses in each race, and how to apply them correctly to produce winning tickets.
Commonsense Handicapping : the Logical, Left-Brained Approach to Winning at
by Dick Mitchell